Karima EM

Karima EM

@karimaelm.bsky.social

PhD @LRSV | Interested in EvoMPMI, EvoDevo & single cell | #MyMarchantia nerd 🍀 | Curious about HGT and alternative splicing in plant evolution| Fascinated by 🌋 & black holes

169 Followers 174 Following 26 Posts Joined May 2024
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Creating a responsible authorship culture in science: Anchoring authorship practices in principles of transparency, credit, and accountability | PNAS Authorship remains the primary currency of academic credit and a cornerstone of research integrity, yet current practices often fail to reflect the...

How do we strengthen trust in scientific authorship?

A new @pnas.org perspective from an expert working group outlines three principles: transparency, credit and accountability.

PLOS Chief Scientific Officer, @verokiermer.bsky.social acted as lead author.

🔗 Read more: plos.io/4saRwae

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Assembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a coiled-coil NLR - Nature SUMM2, a coiled-coil NLR, promotes the assembly of higher-order resistosome clusters to initiate cell death in plants.

Large ring-like structures of multiple resistosomes after activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant - Kamoun Lab Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social

Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱

Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards

www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

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The #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December 2026. Please save the date. Further details will follow 😃

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An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Spatial distribution of isoprenoid enzymes and MpABCG1 transporter influences sesquiterpene accumulation in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies - Communications Biology A study maps terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies and identifies the ABC transporter MpABCG1 as a key factor for endogenous sesquiterpene accumulation in oil bodies, informing futu...

New paper from the lab. Important insights into the compartmentalisation of terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia oil body cells. #PlantScience #SynBio www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop:

What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper

When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET

Where: online, Webex

This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon.

www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

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The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do OR: the long overdue forest fire

Wonderful (and fun!) read from @mastroianni.bsky.social which finishes with a clear answer on how to solve the collective action problem of dismantling scientific publishing

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1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨

It is my pleasure to share:
"Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants"

Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia

doi.org/10.64898/202...

#PlantScience
A thread...

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VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time

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We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.

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www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Fungal genome sequencing for free! 👇🏼 #GGFungi2026

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The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 8 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.

The call is open!

More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...

#VBCPostDoc

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Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥

@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de

Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇

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There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social

- PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit...

- Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto...
Earliest start date: 01/05/2026.

We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!

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[Important notice] To maintain nomenclature consistent and systematic, we strongly recommend that gene names/symbols should be registered before publications and presentations.

📢 New publication 'MarpolBase: #genome database for #Marchantia polymorpha featuring high quality reference genome sequences' by Yasuhiro Tanizawa et al. in Plant and Cell Physiology 🧪🧬

doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#liverwort

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We’re excited to expand access to genetic engineering tools for plants, this time with a focus on the early land plant model Marchantia 🌱

Thank you to the Haseloff lab for depositing this kit with us!

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Check out this great opportunity to join the @kamounlab.bsky.social!

Apply online by 16 March 2026

www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

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Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

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Peer Review Resource Center – ASAPbio Find comprehensive resources and best practices for transparent, constructive peer review of life science research.

Open & transparent preprint review means:
✅Faster feedback
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✅Public, constructive discussion

Are you new to preprint peer review and unsure where to begin? Check out the ASAPbio Peer Review Resource Center to learn more!

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Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

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Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

📣Calling on all researchers interested in meta-research (practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship, e.g., preprints, open access, open education, research impact).
Join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review and contribute to collaborative preprint review.
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I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
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Our editors write:

- Plant–microbe interaction: Root engineering blocks methanogens rdcu.be/e4yJc

- Marchantia immunity: Fungi genes to fight fungi rdcu.be/e4yJl

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Beautiful😍😍
#Marchantiarocks 😉

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We’re hiring!

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab

“Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

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Merci Max, pour le lien et pour ton post 🙏

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Presented today with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @KCGEB1

Open Science, Global Impact: Elevating Your Institute and Career

How can open science amplify both institutional reputation and individual careers?

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum  nymphaeae

What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV

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PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out @pnas.org ! 🔽

Close collaboration between our former PhD students @karimaelm.bsky.social and @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social !

and the old gard @jacquet-chris.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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